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ently crossed by numerous pale wavy lines; the most prominent are a 

 pair basally and another from costa, curving outward around discal spot, 

 makes a bioad outward curve to vein, where a sharp inward angle oc- 

 curs, thence outward to inner margin. A well-defined extra-discal of 

 dusky brown scales makes a sharp outward turn below costa, at vein li 

 makes an abrupt rounded turn backward, and curving slightly toward 

 base reaches inner margin well within anal angle. The distinct geminate 

 pale line follows outside this and parallel to it. Subterminal space 

 darker, more evenly brown, is centrally divided by the clear white wavy 

 line running to anal angle, where it becomes a little broader. Second- 

 aries unmarked, except indications of two parallel dusky curved lines 

 which cross centrally, a few brown scales in clusters along inner margin, 

 and a whitish group at inner angle. Discal dots on primaries small, 

 linear, black ; on secondaries mere dusky specks. Terminal lines nar- 

 row, black, broken at veins. Fringes on all wings long, with a clear 

 white, narrow, unbroken line at base. Large dusky spots opposite veins 

 succeed this and are followed by another narrow whitish line ; borders 

 dusky. Beneath the dusky lines on all wings above are strongly repro- 

 duced in brown, the pale lines becoming clear white. On secondaries 

 the space between dusky lines is traversed by a geminate white line, and 

 the darkened borders of all wings show an irregular white submargina 

 line; discal spots indistinct. Fringes as above; body, legs, and abdo 

 men whitish, heavily sprinkled with dark-brown scales, the latter paler. 



The male and female types, together with two male co- 

 types, were taken June 10 and June 7, 1898, respectively, at 

 Pullman, Washington, by C. V. Piper, and are in the collec- 

 tions of the U. S. National Museum, type No. 13663. 



Eupithecia piccata, new species. 



Expanse, 14 to lo mm. 



Palpi long, stout, dark brown, tipped with white, vertex and front white, 

 a few dark-gray scales intermixed. Antenna; slender, ciliate, white, 

 ringed with dark gray. Thorax and abdomen above clothed uniformly 

 with a mixture of gray and brownish scales, no ring on second segment. 

 All wings above grayish white thickly covered with light and dark brown 

 scales, the latter forming along costa of primaries about four equidistant 

 blotches, and the cross-lines proceeding from them. Of these the basal 

 and median are mere rounded shade lines within discal point, but 

 from the costal inception of the latter line there starts also a clearly de- 

 fined dark-brown hair-line, which turning outward makes an acute angle 

 close to and enclosing the small black discal point, thence slightly basal, 

 wavy, to inner margin about half out. This and the extra-discal running 

 parallel with it include a pale space traversed centrally by a pale, in- 

 definite hair-line, and are darker and more easily traced. The succeed- 

 ing geminate pale lines are not more distinct than central pale band, and 

 the subterminal waved line, usually white, is only so in one of the three 

 specimens before me, the female type, where it is clear white, broadened 



